UTV Television, one of the foremost television production studios in India, has seen many ups and down in the past. At one stage it was one...
Viacom and Raghav Bahl-promoted Network18 are furiously working together to create an entertainment conglomerate in India. The central piece in their build-up plan is a Hindi...
MUMBAI: K Sera Sera is promoting Rajesh Pavithran as the managing director of the company. He was earlier the chief operating officer of Twenty Twenty Television,...
MUMBAI: In a significant move, Balaji Telefilms Ltd. has decided to set up a wholly owned subsidiary company to manage its movie business. The company has...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms plans to scale up its movie business in the next fiscal. The leading TV content company intends to invest Rs 350 million, sources...
MUMBAI: Sparked by a buoyant stock market, media stocks stood as big gainers on Monday. While the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex scaled a new high...
Sony Entertainment Television India’s chief creative director Sandiip Sikcand is the newly appointed man in the newly created position, tasked with the job of scripting a...
MUMBAI: Sony Entertainment Television India’s ratings starved flagship channel Set is going in for a heavy dose of soaps in the coming months as compared to...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms recorded a jump in net profit to Rs 193 million for the quarter ended 30 September 2006. The company’s revenues stood at Rs...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms Ltd. is targeting a 7-8 per cent growth in turnover to around Rs 3.1 billion this fiscal on the back of a rate...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms Ltd. is venturing into co-production deals as part of a strategy to de-risk its movie business. The leading TV content company has tied...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms Ltd’s net profit rose 39 per cent to Rs 173.77 million for the first quarter of this fiscal, as against Rs 125.15 million...
MUMBAI: Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms and Smriti Irani will co-produce Star Plus’ new weekend prime time venture Thodi Si Zameen Thoda Sa Aasmaan. The soap launches...
MUMBAI: Media stocks crashed along with the benchmark Sensex Index which shed 452.80 points to close the day at 10,938. Pulled down by brokers who sold...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms has posted a net profit of Rs 155.03 million for the quarter ended 31 March 2006 as compared to Rs 96.47 million a...
MUMBAI: Indian television’s most successful television soap Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi is set for a 20-year leap and the next generation of actors will...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms Ltd has recorded a net profit of Rs 146.09 million for the quarter ended 31 December 2005, up 56.3 per cent from Rs...
MUMBAI: Cable news and infotainment channel C TV has ambitions to widen its satellite footprint beyond Mumbai. And the man who will bankroll C TV managing...
MUMBAI: Ekta Kapoor is finally shedding the ‘Soap Queen’ image as Balaji Telefilms is now seriously exploring the non-fiction segment for future growth. The production house...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms Ltd’s net profit rose 50.81 per cent to Rs 170.16 million in the quarter ended 30 September 2005 as against Rs 112.83 million...
Passionate about directing ever since her college years, director Swapna Waghmare Joshi has come a long way. She first came to the limelight with Balaji Telefilms’...
The Southern television space, which is second only to the Hindi space in viewership and ad spend, has been a key market for the country‘s prominent...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms has managed to block the video release of Kyaa Kool Hai Hum till 16 June, after moving the Bombay High Court against Indus...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms’ net profit fell 21.8 per cent decline to Rs 96.4 million for the quarter ended 31 March 2005, as compared to Rs 123.3...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms and Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication Pune-based institute (SIMC) are jointly launching a programme in television writing (fiction). According to a media...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms will undertake all film production activities of the promoters, marking a change in strategy aimed at scaling up operations. Earlier, the movie projects...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms is planning to set up its own studios in Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad in a phased manner. The production house will also continue...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms Ltd has posted a 36.4 per cent decline in net profit to Rs 93.46 million for the quarter ended 31 December 2004, as...
MUMBAI: Star Group chief executive officer Michelle Guthrie and John Yu Leung Lau, nominees of Asian Broadcasting FZ LLC (ABF), have joined the board of Balaji...
MUMBAI: Star Group chief executive officer Michelle Guthrie and John Yu Leung Lau, nominees of Asian Broadcasting FZ LLC (ABF), have joined the board of Balaji...
9. RAJAT JAIN, DISNEY INDIA MANAGING DIRECTOR For making the big leap to Walt Disney to head its diversified operations in India. Contending for that coveted...
9. RAJAT JAIN, DISNEY INDIA MANAGING DIRECTOR For making the big leap to Walt Disney to head its diversified operations in India. Contending for that coveted...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms on Monday announced allotment of 21 per cent (13,694,193 equity shares) of the total post issued paid up share capital of the company...
MUMBAI: As the `K’ mania continues; the coming months will see a lot of action from the Balaji Telefilms stable. While the production house is in...
MUMBAI: Come 25 January and leader of the Hindi television roost Star Plus will be incorporating some major changes in its 9-10 pm slot. The band,...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms has declared an interim dividend of 800 per cent i.e. Rs 16 per share of Rs 2 each. The outgo towards this will...
MUMBAI: Mumbai-based K Sera Sera, which is primarily into movie production, has floated a subsidiary company for its television content venture. Twenty Twenty Television (TTT) will...
MUMBAI: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has finally cleared a proposal for Star Group’s acquisition of up to 26 per cent stake in Balaji Telefilms...
MUMBAI: Channel [V] has restructured its team with VJ Luke Kenny being made the head of programming. Aditya Thakur, senior manager in content and communications, has...
MUMBAI: Former COO of Balaji Telefilms, Rajesh Pavitran will take up his next assignment as K Sera Sera’s chief operating officer – television business, starting 15...
MUMBAI: 26-year-old Mumbaite Amit Puri became the first winner of SaharaOne’s Ghante Ki Tuning Jamegi contest. The contest revolves around watching the channel for an hour...
Whoever said soaps on television are passe? Fatigued and routine kitchen politics maybe! But have they stopped delivering? Are they no more an advertiser‘s dream? Have...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms’ net profit fell 21 per cent to Rs 112.83 million for the quarter ended 30 September 2004, from Rs 142.34 million a year...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms’ youth based Hindi fiction daily (Mon-Thurs) Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi will launch on MTV from 25 October. The time slot has not yet...
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not just Ekta Kapoor who calls the shots at Balaji Telefilms. Oftentimes it is her trusted lieutenant, deputy creative director Nivedita...
MUMBAI: Hungama TV, the 24-hour kids’ channel from the UTV stable, will start beaming into Indian homes from 10 am on Sunday, 26 September. However, with...
MUMBAI: One of the leading dailies reported today that market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has initiated an investigation into the insider trading...
NEW DELHI: Star India is all set to launch its new channel, Star One, towards the end of October and the profile of the channel can...
NEW DELHI: Star India though doesn’t foresee Balaji Telefilms, in which a Star affiliate has picked up more than 20 per cent stake, as the only...
MUMBAI: They have been closely bonded for a while now. The Jeetendra Kapoor promoted Balaji Telefilms has been Star India’s leading winning content provider for more...